What is a collaborative robot? Application prospects of collaborative robots

What are collaborative robots ?

　　Collaborative robots , as the name suggests, are robots humans that can work together on the production line, giving full play to the power of robots the intelligence of humans. This type of robot is only cost-effective, but also safe convenient, which can greatly promote the development of manufacturing companies.

As a new type of industrial robot , 　　collaborative robots have removed the obstacles to human-machine collaboration completely freed robots the constraints of guardrails cages. Their groundbreaking product functions wide range of applications have opened a new era for the development of industrial robots.

　　Key features of collaborative robots

　　1. Lightweight

　　Make robots easier to control improve safety.

　　2. Friendliness

　　Ensure that the robot's surfaces joints are smooth flat, without sharp corners gaps that could easily injure operators.

　　3. Perception

　　Perceive the surrounding environment change its own behavior according to changes in the environment.

　　4. Human-machine collaboration

　　It has sensitive force feedback characteristics will stop immediately when the set force is reached. After risk assessment, there is no need to install a protective fence, allowing people robots to work together.

　　5. Convenient programming

　　It is very easy to program debug for general operators people with non-technical backgrounds.

　　Application prospects of collaborative robots

　　At present, the application of collaborative robots in the domestic market is mainly concentrated in 3C electronics, automobiles their parts, home appliances other industries. In addition to the industrial field, collaborative robots also have great development prospects in the commercial service field, including the currently popular logistics warehousing medical fields.

　　Among them, in the picking link in the field of logistics warehousing, one method is the method of AGV equipped with collaborative robots, the market for logistics warehousing will be immeasurable.

　　In addition, because collaborative robots are relatively safe their robotic arms mimic the flexibility of human arms, they are very suitable for use in the fields of rehabilitation robots healthcare robots.

　　In the short term, the industrial sector will remain the primary application market for collaborative robots, but competition will become increasingly fierce; in the long run, the service sector has the opportunity to become a new blue ocean of application.

　　Collaborative robots equipped with AGV form composite robots

　　Combining collaborative robots with AGV carts means that collaborative robots are no longer limited to a certain unit, area type of work, but are upgraded to "free robots" in the production line team. only can they be transferred scheduled between processes, but they can also be deployed to any workstation to participate in production according to production expansion needs, work together with operators in specific safe areas.

　　Collaborative robots are equipped with various flexible grippers to complete more tasks

　　Compared with traditional robots, the biggest feature of collaborative robots is flexibility. In order to further improve the flexibility of collaborative robots, more more flexible fixtures will be used in their applications, these end effectors will increasingly become the core components of robot applications. After being equipped with end effectors, collaborative robots can better perform some new functions. Robot module

　　Under this development trend, companies at home abroad are increasingly emphasizing the function of collaborative robots to quickly replace fixtures. The robot can automatically replace identify any tool gripper. The operator can edit the robot's motion path the movements of all docked fixtures grippers at one time by dragging, without using a handheld teaching pendant, truly completing hands-on editing.

　　Deeply cultivating subdivided industries innovating products are the way for enterprises to develop in the long run

　　As a new product type of industrial robots, collaborative robots are still in the process of iterative upgrades. At the same time, the functions technical parameters of collaborative robots have been fully finalized still cannot meet the actual needs of some special application scenarios. Therefore, in the future market competition, it will be the way for collaborative robot companies to develop rapidly by deepening the subdivision of application subdivisions production links, comprehensively polishing the combination of product functions application processes, forming replicable process packages.